Basic
Statistics for United States Imperialism

1list of interventions
for regime change 2list of air warfare campaigns 3list
of client states 4list of states held by debt-leverage imperialism 5list
of foreign base hosts 6list of murder toll 7list of unsavory
rightists supported 8list of perverted international bodies 9list
of interventions for opposing liberation 10list of interventions pre-1941
11list of covert operations 12list of front organizations
13list of low intensity conflicts 14list of proxy wars 15list
of foreign policy doctrines 16list of propaganda campaigns

Bibliography
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1.
Chronological list of interventions, with the purpose of effecting regime
change, attempted or materially supported by the United Stateswhether
primarily by means of overt force (OF), covert operation (CO), or subverted election
(SE):

a) OF and SE imply, necessarily, prior and continuing
CO.

b) OF = directly applied state terrorism by the United States
repressive apparatus i.e. the Departments of War/Defense, Energy, Treasury, and
State. N.B. the formation of the National Security Council (1947) and the Office
of Homeland Security (2002).

d) SE = a particular species of CO, comparatively non-violent,
high plausible deniability, usually involves dumping tons of cash and campaign
technologies into the hands of rightist groups during elections, sowing discord
in leftist parties, buying up media space in order to destabilize electorates,
tampering directly with ballot results, and hiring jackboots to actively threaten
and brutalize voters in the last resort. NB many subverted elections are preceded
by lengthy terror campaigns (e.g. Nicaragua, El Salvador, Yugoslavia, etc).

It
should go without saying that the following entries are simplified; only the major
payoff year is listed, where applicable. Most attempted overthrows
were preceded by lengthy preparationsvast right wing conspiracies, indeed.
NB that this list remains under construction; new data will be added in the next
installment.

The
* indicates that Im not clever enough to have found the absent data yet.
Apologies.

Neutralist refers to a given regimes
desire to avoid taking sides with either power bloc in the cold war. It should
be readily apparent that such is an unforgivable sin against the foreign policy
establishment in the United States.

Nationalist refers
to a given regimes desire to nationalize foreign-owned means of production
within its national boundaries. It should be readily apparent that such is an
unforgivable sin against the foreign policy establishment in the United States.

We should keep in mind that the goals of the imperialist in
each of these instances are multiple: acquisition of access to local markets
of all varieties; imposition of neoliberal policy; destruction of any potential
alternative to the techno-fascist ruling order; provision of incentive for a sprawling
parasitical and parastatal medical-intelligence-military-industrial complex (MIMIC);
production of official villains for propaganda purposes; intimidation
of non-combatants (as in the year 1945), and continuing political hegemony of
the transnational elite based in DC.

4. Chronological list of states
held in the manacles of debt-leverage imperialism:

N.B. these
states are held in the thralldom of odious debt imposed upon them
by (typically) quasi-fascistic regimes who 1) often enough were empowered via
United States state terrorism and 2) accepted the terms of United States dominated
Bretton Woods restructuring programs.

Many countries found themselves
in dire monetary and fiscal straits in the early 1980safter the Nixon shocks,
the various oil embargoes, and the Volcker interest rate hikes. At this time of
the debt crisis, the IMF and World Bank became lenders of last resort
for regimes unable to meet balance of payments obligations to imperialist-controlled
banksbut such lending comes with a cost: dismantle any and all policies
that dont adhere to the mystical mantras of neoliberalism (ie such policies
as protectionism, capital regulation, state industry, wage control, labor and
environmental regulation, resistance to currency devaluation, autochthonous/non-export
production, etc had to go); such is the nature of the structural adjustment program
(SAP).

Note further that these policies were the Reaganites
answer to the Crisis of Democracy (as defined by the geniuses in the
Trilateral Commission) that was occurring on a global scale and to the relative
loss of US geopolitical power in the late 1970s. In order to disrupt the G-77,
UNCTAD, and other international movements modeled on the success of OPEC, the
debt crisis and its neoliberal response were engineered for the sake of ushering
in a new world order of managed friggin chaos. It is good to recall that
a number of countries that have refused SAP have been attacked (e.g., Serbia)
and/or destabilized (e.g., Belarus). It is also prudent to realize that many an
ethnic, religious, or otherwise vaguely described civil
war has been caused directly by SAP (e.g., Somalia, Yugoslavia).

Moreover
note that the meaning of debt crisis is that subjugated nations that
were unable to meet balance of payments obligations to imperialist-controlled
banks threatened the survival of such banks, and thus this privately held debt
was transferred to public institutions, thereby socializing risk while insuring
the sanctity of corporate profit. (I.e., crisis does not here refer
to those horrors being inflicted on subjugated peoples.)

5. Rough chronological list of foreign territories hosting
US military installations. The range of years for each group attempts to indicate
when the country in question first began its role as host for US military
facilities. NB Im still corroborating these. [under construction]

The murder toll
has been achieved by either direct violence (e.g. the firebombing and nuking of
Japan or the firebombing of Dresden) or indirect/proxy low intensity conflict
(e.g. Rwanda in the 90s or Nicaragua in the 80s). (I have not here accounted for
the deaths attributable to SAP.) Some extremely conservative estimates

We should also take
note that the United States bears more than superficial responsibility for the
Nazi Holocaust: e.g., the turning away of Jewish, Romani, and other refugees;
funding the concentration camp system; underwriting the Third Reichs military;
delay in opening a western front; policies of appeasement before the war; siding
with the fascists during the Spanish Civil War; turning down Stalins offer
to attack Germany jointly in 1938; providing theoretical inspiration for lebensraum,
final solutions, anti-communism, anti-Semitism, etc; rebuilding Germany after
the war with the fascist infrastructure still intact; saving war criminals; general
ideological support; and so forth.

It seems as though the number one criterion for getting a job as the head of
a client state is a willingness to butcher leftists. Indeed, the use of unsavory
rightists by the United States began neither with the anti-Castro Cuban émigré
community, nor with the Afghan mujaheddin alumni, oh Nelly no!

[the
dates provided are sloppily done, I concede. At times, they are just the general
duration of the given regime (e.g., Selassie). Most others are the duration of
US support while the regime lasted (e.g., Hitler, Saddam Hussein, etc.)]

9. Chronological list
of interventions by the United States, with the purpose of opposing (or aiding
opposition to) popular resistance movementswhether by means of overt force
(OF) or covert operation (CO):

Scanning the official public acknowledgment
list here, we clearly see that the US had extreme paranoia about China, Mexico,
Nicaragua, and Panama: Open Doors, uncooperative neighbors, and two
potential canal zones. Also, check the rationale in the official Defense Dept.
record for each of the above conflict dates. Many, many times, we have the to
protect US interests [or nationals] during a crisis as the proposed
justification. Caveat lector.

11. Noteworthy Covert
Operations conducted by the United States.

We should keep
in mind that the dates given are the confessed dates of operation. In no way does
this account for programs that continued to run after they were officially terminated,
nor does it reckon with the same practices under different namesor no names
at all. It should go without saying that this isnt a complete listing.

The
primary goal of low intensity conflict is to use proxies, intelligence, and special
forces to destabilize a region and its official government. The purpose of destabilization
is to achieve 1) access to resources amidst the chaos, 2) delegitimation of an
enemy political/economic system, 3) influence over specific local
groups, and 4) depopulation of regions inhabited by untermenschen.

All leftists should learn about low intensity warfare; it is by
far and away one of the most disgusting and useful tools in the imperialist repertoire.
Dont let the words low intensity trick you: rivers are dammed
with corpses and the fields are sown with the blood of the targeted nation.

14. Proxy Wars fought by the United
States, which typically involves the use of clients, dupes, mercenaries, unofficial
volunteers, and official, though disavowable, special forces. [under
construction]

contra Soviet Union: stock-in-trade Cold War superpower
jousting

contra France: after the Soviet Union ended all activities in
Africa, the US began its bid to force French proxies out of North Africa.

contra
Germany: during the 1990s, Germany and the US used multiple proxies to fight over
control of the Balkans, with its precious Corridor 8, thereby ruining
the entire region.

contra China: from Cold War crimes to New World Order
harassment, the US has used many proxies against the Chinese: Thai, Tibetan, Burmese,
Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Islamic, Taiwanese.

15.
Foreign policy doctrines more or less practiced by the United States.

Roosevelt Corollary
 western hemisphere = US property, and we mean it this time! non-whites
= untermenschen

Taft Doctrine  Dollar Diplomacy i.e., western hemisphere
= US property, and we mean economically, politically, and all other ways; the
Middle East = potentially, possibly, most likely, US property

Wilson Doctrine
 14 Points internationalism (i.e., great powers should respect each other;
to hell with the rest); western hemisphere = US property, and we really mean it
this time! non-whites = untermenschen

Clinton
Doctrine  New World Order; multilaterally if we can, unilaterally
when we must.

Bush II Doctrine  New World Order; unilaterally
when we can, multilaterally if we must.

16. Noteworthy
propaganda campaigns, hoaxes, and other lies qua casus belli utilized by the United
States:

It is well known that German Fascists transformed their
buffoonish leader, Hitler, from a national joke into der Fuhrer die Reich by means
of a) securing moneys from large industrialists and financiers (they liked his
extremely rightwing ideas on race, labor, religion, nationalism, capitalism, imperialism,
etc) and b) by using multiple propaganda hoaxes in order to sway domestic opinion.

The Reichstag fire in 1933 allowed for Hitler to be proclaimed leader of
the state as well as for the Night of the Long Knives the following year (violence
against leftists) and all of the anti-jewish bullshit that came soon after. As
we all know, the Reichstag was burned by fascist thugs and blamed on communists;
they even got a disabled Dutch guy to admit to both arson and communismsmoking
gun! woohoo!

In 1938, the Nazis claimed that they needed to perform a humanitarian
intervention in the Sudetenland (in the modern Czech Republic) in order
to stop ethnic violence. Of course, it was Nazi thugs carrying out
the ethnic violence in the first place, but never mind that small
detail.

In 1939, the fascists contrived Operation Canned Goodsa faked
attack on a German border patrol, which was allegedly a surprise massacre, carried
out by Polish military personnel. Evil Slavic Untermenschen Evildoer Terrorists!
Too bad, however, that we now know those corpses in German uniform shown on Nazi
TV to be dead Poles, kidnapped and murdered; the German public, though, went insane
with jingoism, calling for invasions and genocide.

As we shall see, this
is a technique learned by the Nazis from the masters of such things in the US
(Hitler credited the development of the Final Solution to his study
of US treatment of Native Americans), and something that was then perfected by
the US after it recovered and reconciled with its mad dog Nazi assets during the
Cold War.

The overall pattern is using irrelevant, misinterpreted, or completely
fabricated events in order to convince all of the clarences (who had nothing to
gain from militarism, but who were susceptible to jingoism, racism, ethnocentrism)
that war is a great fucking idea! NB that many of these propaganda hoaxes
seem to be more effective now than they were when first produced. Also NB, these
are the times that the state was forced, for whatever reasons, to consult with
the publiceither Congress or the people. Most US crimes are committed without
recourse to either, or with only a general, vague acknowledgement: Oh, that
CIA is just protecting Freedom from Evil! We cant tell you what theyre
doing specifically, because that would compromise them to the Forces of Darkness!

1775  Britain: so it begins, and the story runs that Evildoer British
imperialists took away Our Liberty, &c.; produced Evil Boston Massacres, Stamp
Acts, Massachusetts Uprisings; and tried to import tea. While the British were
certainly imperialistic, and tea is the mark of the ruling class in colonial times,
we should take heed that the first offensive of the American War for Independence
was a colonial invasion of Quebec. Huh? You mean, before they even signed the
Declaration, the proto-United States was invading other countries? You bet. Whats
at stake here is the Proclamation Line and the Quebec Act, both of which prevented
the fledgling colonies from expanding. And be sure to recall that during the next
US war, a conquest of Canada would again be attempted.

1812  Britain:
ah tales of naval impressments. Too bad that this narrative,
of war caused by US sailors being conscripted, like slaves, into the British privateering
fleet, is a lie; too bad that the landowners all across the infant US wanted the
British, French, Spanish, and natives off the continent so they could expand their
holdings, import more slaves, and thereby make more money; too bad that plans
for such expansion existed way before the declaration of hostilities. The keys
here are Florida, the Caribbean, and the western frontier.

1846 
Mexico: the US is forced to retaliate against the Mexicans, since Mexican troops
ruthlessly attacked US regiments, who just happened to be occupying slave-owning
Texas. Why would the Evildoers in Mexico do that? Not, I hope, because Texas was
part of Mexico? Not, I fear, because Mexicans were anti-slavery (abolished since
1829)? Not, I believe, because the US had aggressively assaulted Mexico multiple
times already, including the original secessionist agitation in Texas? No, none
of that matters; theyre just Evil.

1898  Spain: the Remember
the Maine! incident as well as Hearst newspapers proclaiming that Cuba needed
a humanitarian interventionboth obvious lieshelp sway
people in the US to genocidal furor. Enter Empire, the subjugation of the people
of Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba, and the Philippine genocide.

1917 
Central Powers: the Lusitania incident and the Zimmerman Telegram fire up US war
fervor; too bad the Wilson administration provoked the Germans by aiding the British
under a flag of neutrality, generated tons of anti-German racialist
BS, and managed to invade every country in the Caribbean, including Mexico several
times. Also, we neednt forget that the Wilsonian declaration of War was
timed perfectly with Lenins April Theses. All in the name of
protecting democracy, from Evildoers, no doubt! An honest student
of history will note that its more like protecting certain segments
of Kapital from others, whilst destroying genuine democratic resistance.

1918  USSR: Communists eat babies! Bolsheviks seek
to conquer world! International Jewry grabs power in Russia!
Reds to start war in India next! Socialism and incest: partners
in Sin! So ran the newspapers, every day, in every city, after Czarist absolutism
was broken by popular resistance, no thanks to the US. Wilsons administration
used such imbecilic pretenses in a failed attempt to strangle bolshevism
in its cradle, as one imperialist from a different genocidal nation put
it. Of course, the real motives behind western intervention werent mentioned:
Capital Capital Capital Capital.

1941  Axis Powers: the Pearl Harbor
attack was known in advance, no matter how sudden or how much infamy
Roosevelt would later claim for it. NB FDRs well-planned provocation strategy
to ensure that Japan would attack the US, thus allowing the US to dictate terms
to the rest of the world, which would be destroyed by wars end. NB that
the overrated Operation Overlord was delayed just long enough for the Soviet Union
to be shattered by Kapitals mad dog Hitler, but just timely enough to prevent
the Soviets from taking out all of the fascists in Europe, from the Volga to Gibraltar.

1945  Japan: eventnukes; propaganda liesaving Japanese
and American lives; bitter truthself-serving genocide and terrorism
to intimidate Stalin. Only assholes can believe the US story here.

1950
 DPRK: despite claims that the Totalitarian North ruthlessly invaded
the Free South, it looks as though a communist North reacted to a long series
of provocations carried out by a fascistic South, which included border skirmishes,
coordinated raids, and artillery battery. But who cares? America to the rescue!
Of fascism!

1952  East Germany: despite Soviet attempts to get out
of Berlin, requiring only assurances from the US that Germany would be a) democratic,
b) demilitarized, c) united, and d) neutral, the US insisted on the precarious,
ignorant status quo, obviously preferring it to the just Soviet proposal. Up,
then, went the Berlin Wall in 1961, which was called an act of tyranny by moronic
US commentators, but was intended by the Soviet Union to keep fascists, CIA operatives,
saboteurs, assassins, and other agents of Kapital away. This event is largely
responsible for much escalation of the Cold War during 50s, which would predictably
and wrongly be blamed on the USSR.

1953  Iran: Commies are gonna
get us! Or so it was said by flag-waving retards. The unfortunate truth: a democratic
regime thought it was allowed to use its own resources for its own benefit. The
US disagreed with Mossadegh.

1954  Guatemala: Commies are gonna get
us! Or so it was said by flag-waving retards. The unfortunate truth: a democratic
regime thought it was allowed to use its own resources for its own benefit. The
US disagreed with Arbenz.

1964  Vietnam: the USS Maddox got hit by
some lightning, but LBJ thought itd be a good idea to bow before the banking
cartels, the Seven Sisters, the Pentagon, and crusty McCarthyoids, thereby inventing
the notion that the (repeat the old script) Red North ruthlessly invaded the Free
Southor, at least they ruthlessly attacked an innocent US naval vessel in
international waters. Turns out that there was no attack, that the ship was in
Hanois waters, and was not-at-all-innocently deploying special forces and
other anti-communist swine into the North for the normal roster of Kapitalist
Karnage.

1973  Chile: Commies are gonna get us! Or so it was said
by flag-waving retards. The unfortunate truth: a democratic regime thought it
was allowed to use its own resources for its own benefit. The US disagreed with
Allende.

1981  Nicaragua: Commies are gonna get us! Or so it was
said by flag-waving retards. The unfortunate truth: a democratic regime thought
it was allowed to use its own resources for its own benefit. The US disagreed
with Ortega.

1983  Grenada: Commies are gonna get us! Or so it was
said by flag-waving retards. The unfortunate truth: a democratic regime thought
it was allowed to use its own resources for its own benefit. The US disagreed
with Bishop.

1986  Libya: Evil Terrorist Nation! Quit doing Terrorist
things! We will bomb you! Turns out that the Libyans werent responsible,
after all, for the acts of terror of which theyd been accused.
Hmm a high publicity bombing mission right in the middle of the Iran-Contra
Affair? What a coincidence! And at a time when Gorbachev was making peaceful overtures
and the US was in danger of having no enemies? Amazingly coincidental!

1989
 Panama: They said that Noriega was an Evildoer Drugdealer! You must go
Evil Doper! USA All The Way! Humanitarian Intervention! We should mention that
Noriega was attempting to institute some democratic reforms and social services,
had been a CIA asset, and largely oversaw US drug smugglingand could document
his and US involvement in the Iran-Contra Affair. But why trouble anyone with
the facts? Especially the fact that the true meaning of the words Operation
Just Cause is that US Delta Force teams secretly attacked US Army units
so that the US could claim Panamanian terrorists are shooting us!

1991  Kuwait: the famous dead babies hoax, which was
revealed to be a lie. Other tidbits: Kuwait had provoked Iraq in numerous ways;
Iraq got approval from its imperial master, the US, before invading; Bush had
personal investments in the region; and US strategy had long called for a way
to control the Gulf States directly. With the USSR gone and the Kuwait-Iraq border
dispute, the US now had both pretext and opportunity.

1992  Bosnia:
never mind all of the dead Serbs. Instead, check out this photo! The Evil Serb
Evildoers have Evilly put some guy in a concentration camp at Trnopolje! Look
at the barbed wire! Look at how starved he is! Oh wait a minute looks
like that the barbed wire is around someones shed, that the photographer
is in the shed, that the starving guy is a refugee on the outside of the barbed
fence, that the headline Belsen 92 is a lie, that there were no concentration
camps, and that the entire series of US operations in the early 1990s were resurrected
Nazi policies on Yugoslavia, which still maintained some socialistic economic
policies. Well, Ill be damned: another humanitarian intervention
for Kapitalism.

1993  Somalia: Yet another Humanitarian intervention!
Thing is, the famine was nearly over, the US wasnt anywhere near where it
had been, the Somalis already hated the US for thrusting Barre on them, and the
US was only there now for 1) oil prospecting, 2) uranium mining, 3) military basing,
4) public relations, and 5) a paid advertisement for the Pentagon,
in Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Colin Powells cynical phrase..

1998
 Sudan: Evil terrorists are making VX nerve gas in that big factory! Tomahawk
it! Turns out, though, that the plant manufactured antibiotics for half the country.
Given that the Sudan was in the midst of a disease crisis, the destruction of
their medical infrastructure only served to exacerbate the problem. How many died
as a result? Who knowsthe US, as is typical, doesnt care to investigate,
apologize, or acknowledge.

1999  Kosovo: Humanitarian intervention!
Now for something completely different. Racak, Srebrenica, Izbica, Trepcaall
more complicated than they seem, as according to numerous international organizations,
the FBI, and so on. Ethnic cleansing? Only if we are talking about the cleansing
of Serbs by NATO. And the banner hoax here: the Serbian MIG, allegedly
attacking civilians, is revealed as a fraud in state-press photos, which obviously
display English writing on the alleged fuselage.

2001  Afghanistan:
Evil Terrorists got us! We will get them back! Of course, the true story is much
more complicated, involving US complicity, deception, and strategic planning at
all levels, as noted in the recent historical record (cf. the complete 9/11
timeline).

2002  Iraq?: Evil! Smite Evil! Get oil! Did I say
oil? I meant that Evildoer tried to kill my daddy! One excellent hoax, besides
the manufactured general threat rhetoric, is the alleged 15 kg of
weapons-grade uranium recovered in Turkey in mid 2002, allegedly bound
for Iraq from Eastern Europe. Too bad that this weapons-grade
uranium has Made in West Germany written on itin English.